Hi folks,
Answering to the question why an end-user needs a backup with personal story and I think it makes total sense.
A real end user story: My father in law is far away from IT and the problem is he thinks he is not. He does some really crazy things on his own and then calls me…
When it is a software level (thanks to the Endpoint) it takes me a cup of coffee to roll back to the latest backup (I’ve already done it twice). I wish I could make a backup on a hardware level (since he likes to “clean” the motherboard from time to time…
The funny fact that he does not even now its running – its “some where in the tray” and backup is performed to the WD 3TB NAS box I gave him to store the photos.
I like to think that every IT guy is a one man shop for his family or close friends. What is easier: to restore from the backup or to deploy a new windows installation at your sister’s laptop looking for an activation keys stored somewhere and then installing some software she likes but can’t really say how its called (real end user story #2 btw)
P.S. This year I got all my family with WD NAS boxes and VEB installed